Martial Arts
Martial ArtsThe Featherweight Ledger: How an Empty Data Sheet Reprices Sports Journalism2026-11-04I keep the first Deal Sheet in my head, written in a combat hall in Kuala...
Martial ArtsWithout a Discipline Sub-Label, Combat-Sports Analysis Cannot Begin: Reading a Null Report2026-10-17Two in the morning at my Seoul desk. A video loops on the screen: a fighter...
Martial Arts42-41 and 35-45: How Singapore's First Team Épée Medal Arrived, and What Still Hasn't2026-09-26When the number on screen froze at 42-41, nobody in the room jumped. One...
Martial ArtsThe Verification Crisis in Combat Sports Journalism: Professional Standards for Martial Arts and Combat Sports Coverage2026-11-04Introduction: reading an empty payload The weakest point of sports journalism...
Martial ArtsThe Martial Arts Budget Ledger: Why a Fighter's Purse Paperwork Is the Real Story2026-10-22It is nearly half past eleven at night in a combat hall in Kuala Lumpur. The...
Martial ArtsRivera's Win Was About Market Value, Not Rankings2026-10-21I keep an old notebook, dated March 2026. Four days at the national karate...
The Featherweight Ledger: How an Empty Data Sheet Reprices Sports JournalismI keep the first Deal Sheet in my head, written in a combat hall in Kuala...
The Verification Crisis in Combat Sports Journalism: Professional Standards for Martial Arts and Combat Sports CoverageIntroduction: reading an empty payload The weakest point of sports journalism...
The Martial Arts Budget Ledger: Why a Fighter's Purse Paperwork Is the Real StoryIt is nearly half past eleven at night in a combat hall in Kuala Lumpur. The...
Rivera's Win Was About Market Value, Not RankingsI keep an old notebook, dated March 2026. Four days at the national karate...
Vietnam's Virtual Taekwondo Medal Hope Is a First-Edition Arbitrage, Not a Strength StatementIn December 2026, at the indoor hall of the Khulna district stadium, I watche...
Without a Discipline Sub-Label, Combat-Sports Analysis Cannot Begin: Reading a Null ReportTwo in the morning at my Seoul desk. A video loops on the screen: a fighter...
Buriram, Outside the Ropes: How a Muay Thai Fighter's Punches Became the Criminality of Trained ForceAs the evening light faded in front of a house in Buriram, an incident unfold...
MMA's Shadow in the Wrestling Circle: Real American Freestyle's Abu Dhabi Card and the Names Missing From the ListOn the night of October 23, after Real American Freestyle's fourteenth card h...
Frames, Frameworks and the Empty Page: The Eight Layers of Combat-Sports AnalysisLast night I opened an analysis file. Eight sections, neatly stacked tables...
Darren Yap's Bronze: A 0.05-Point Margin and a 0.34-Point GapThe scoreboard in Nagoya reads 9.0400. Fourth place is 9.0900. The margin is...
The Nagoya Roar and a 0.05-Point Margin: Darren Yap's Bronze and Singapore's First Medal StoryAt a hotel ballroom weigh-in stage in Nagoya, there were more eyes on Faceboo...
The Ledger of the Void: What Goes Unwritten on Bangladesh's Combat-Sports Beat, and WhyNovember 2026. Eight months after the pandemic shuttered every gym, Banglades...
Raoni Barcelos's Fifth Round: The Stretcher, the CT Scan, and the Suspension Table Nobody PublishedHook: How a Monday Instagram Comment Flipped the Story On Monday morning in...
Ahead on All Three Cards, Then Carried Out on a Stretcher: Barcelos, Rosas and the UFC's Uncomfortable ArithmeticFifth round, Las Vegas, cage-side clinch. Two bodies tangled along the fence,...
The Kata Queens' Cropped Hair: The Gap Between Vietnam's Two Asian Games Golds Nobody Wants to MeasureThe story broke in Hanoi. I read it from an apartment in Nagoya at five in th...
42-41 and 35-45: How Singapore's First Team Épée Medal Arrived, and What Still Hasn'tWhen the number on screen froze at 42-41, nobody in the room jumped. One...
42–41 and 35–45: The Two Faces of Singapore's Épée BronzeThe scoreboard reads 42–41. Team épée relays run to a 45-touch target: nine...
From 42–41 to 35–45: The Ledger Nobody Is Writing Behind Singapore's Fencing BronzeEvening light lay across the piste at Aichi Sky Expo. The board read 41–41. I...
Singapore make history: first Asian Games women's épée team bronze after 42–41 win over UzbekistanAt the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games, Singapore's women's épée team made history b...
42–41: The Scoreline That Wrote Singapore's Fencing History — and the Number Nobody ReadAt 42–41 on the board, the team épée target is 45 touches — and the result is...
The Verification Crisis in Combat Sports Journalism: Professional Standards for Martial Arts and Combat Sports CoverageIntroduction: reading an empty payload The weakest point of sports journalism...
The Martial Arts Budget Ledger: Why a Fighter's Purse Paperwork Is the Real StoryIt is nearly half past eleven at night in a combat hall in Kuala Lumpur. The...
Rivera's Win Was About Market Value, Not RankingsI keep an old notebook, dated March 2026. Four days at the national karate...
Vietnam's Virtual Taekwondo Medal Hope Is a First-Edition Arbitrage, Not a Strength StatementIn December 2026, at the indoor hall of the Khulna district stadium, I watche...
Without a Discipline Sub-Label, Combat-Sports Analysis Cannot Begin: Reading a Null ReportTwo in the morning at my Seoul desk. A video loops on the screen: a fighter...
Buriram, Outside the Ropes: How a Muay Thai Fighter's Punches Became the Criminality of Trained ForceAs the evening light faded in front of a house in Buriram, an incident unfold...
MMA's Shadow in the Wrestling Circle: Real American Freestyle's Abu Dhabi Card and the Names Missing From the ListOn the night of October 23, after Real American Freestyle's fourteenth card h...
Frames, Frameworks and the Empty Page: The Eight Layers of Combat-Sports AnalysisLast night I opened an analysis file. Eight sections, neatly stacked tables...
Darren Yap's Bronze: A 0.05-Point Margin and a 0.34-Point GapThe scoreboard in Nagoya reads 9.0400. Fourth place is 9.0900. The margin is...
The Nagoya Roar and a 0.05-Point Margin: Darren Yap's Bronze and Singapore's First Medal StoryAt a hotel ballroom weigh-in stage in Nagoya, there were more eyes on Faceboo...
The Ledger of the Void: What Goes Unwritten on Bangladesh's Combat-Sports Beat, and WhyNovember 2026. Eight months after the pandemic shuttered every gym, Banglades...
Raoni Barcelos's Fifth Round: The Stretcher, the CT Scan, and the Suspension Table Nobody PublishedHook: How a Monday Instagram Comment Flipped the Story On Monday morning in...
Ahead on All Three Cards, Then Carried Out on a Stretcher: Barcelos, Rosas and the UFC's Uncomfortable ArithmeticFifth round, Las Vegas, cage-side clinch. Two bodies tangled along the fence,...
The Kata Queens' Cropped Hair: The Gap Between Vietnam's Two Asian Games Golds Nobody Wants to MeasureThe story broke in Hanoi. I read it from an apartment in Nagoya at five in th...
42-41 and 35-45: How Singapore's First Team Épée Medal Arrived, and What Still Hasn'tWhen the number on screen froze at 42-41, nobody in the room jumped. One...
42–41 and 35–45: The Two Faces of Singapore's Épée BronzeThe scoreboard reads 42–41. Team épée relays run to a 45-touch target: nine...
From 42–41 to 35–45: The Ledger Nobody Is Writing Behind Singapore's Fencing BronzeEvening light lay across the piste at Aichi Sky Expo. The board read 41–41. I...
Singapore make history: first Asian Games women's épée team bronze after 42–41 win over UzbekistanAt the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games, Singapore's women's épée team made history b...
42–41: The Scoreline That Wrote Singapore's Fencing History — and the Number Nobody ReadAt 42–41 on the board, the team épée target is 45 touches — and the result is...